A Different Kind of Happiness - Nothing But Thieves

The buzzing of my telephone

To my surprise, I know the call

The cadence of my future self

He didn't sound all that well

He didn't sound that well

But if I could see it

Through a softer lens

It wouldn't mean that

It hurt any less

It's not what I hoped for

I don't wanna pretend

But maybe I'll find

Maybe I'll find

A different kind

Of happiness

And all the Earth crashed into one

Said all the things you're runnin' from

All the rage and the regret

Well, I ain't outrun 'em yet

No, I ain't outrun 'em yet

But if I could see it

Through a softer lens

It wouldn't mean that

It hurt any less

It's not what I hoped for

I don't wanna pretend

But maybe I'll find

Maybe I'll find

A different kind

Of happiness

Then a call from me as a boy

Reality was all but gone

He said, "Life, it keeps replacing joy

And I don't know where I belong"

He was lost in an alien sadness

Don't remember where it came from

He said, "I am full up of an otherness"

He hung up before I could pass on

But if I could see it

Through a softer lens

It wouldn't mean that

It hurt any less

It's not what I hoped for

I don't wanna pretend

But maybe I'll find

Maybe I'll find

A different kind

Of happiness